across the frontier

Frequency: 7.515.0 per million words

Indicates movement from one side of the border to the other.

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Examples (10)

  • The weapons were smuggled across the frontier.
  • At dawn, the refugees slipped quietly across the frontier to safety.
  • Do not attempt to drive across the frontier without your papers.
  • Our convoy will move across the frontier as soon as the ceasefire holds.
  • By nightfall, the troops had already pushed across the frontier.
  • Traders regularly carry produce across the frontier during market week.
  • She was caught trying to take a rare artifact across the frontier.
  • Emergency supplies have been flown across the frontier to the flooded villages.
  • Does this road run across the frontier, or does it turn back before the checkpoint?
  • In spring, herds migrate across the frontier following greener pastures.